Due to the slow loading, I ended up writing some simple Jira API wrapper scripts for submitting bug reports quicker in our systems. I don't see our organisation switching anytime soon.
I fucking hate Jira
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#82I wish the comments were more specific about which features they don’t like. For me a particularly frustrating aspect is the way the UI moves around a lot. I’m quite anxious to click anything until all the loading spinners have stopped in case I click the wrong thing. Then I could be taken to a page or feature I’ve never seen before. Also it’s really annoying when I try to copy something from a ticket description but…
Everything turning into an edit action when I just want to click a link or copy a bit of text is super annoying! Also is thinking you're in a text field, typing out something and realizing you've done a whole bunch of random actions because of all the hotkeys.
The #1 thing I want out of every project management thingy I've used is the ability to have direct links to a ticket/issue or list of tickets/issues load as a basic HTML page, that's either read-only or uses a "save" button rather than persisting edits instantly. Provide a link to the full-fat version of the page, on the off chance I want that.
I just want tickets to load instantly (trivial, if you're not loading an "app" with it), not use hundreds of MB of memory and tons of background processor cycles (ditto) so I feel like I can't just leave it open, and not to have to worry I'll click in the wrong place or accidentally trigger some hotkey thing and screw something up.
Let the PMs have their version of the site with live-edited everything and janky (because Web) drag & drop galore and a whole universe of hotkeys and combos. I just want a fucking web page with the info I need.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a tool for the boring part of software engineering- I don't expect it to spark joy. I wish it were faster, scaled the full width of my monitor, allowed external editors, etc. Overall it gets the job done well. Everything else that I've used is horrible which makes it the best in my experience but that's still not saying much.
But what if it _did_ spark joy… https://linear.app/readme
We use Linear at my job too - it's very smooth and easy to use and certainly does spark joy
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#84What are some alternatives to JIRA? Also, how much of the hate directed towards JIRA buried resentment towards Agile and other project management paradigms?
Shameless plug for Constructor[1], we're early (new website on the way) but have a bunch of happy customers, many of whom came from Jira, the rest mostly from Trello (to which we're most often and justifiably compared, we keep it simple!)
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#85> Also LOL to SourceTree. The git command line commands aren’t exactly rocket science.
This one caught me off guard. I know of no other free GUI for git that's as easy to use or install.
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#86 Atlassian, please don't sue me.
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#88One real benefit of Jira is that almost everything else out there has an importer for Jira. We chose to move from FogBugz to Jira ~3 years ago, in part because we knew if it didn't end up working for us, it would be relatively easy to move to another platform.
Many of the competitors don't fully understand this. They offer importers for Jira, but not an *exporter to* Jira. It's a pretty hard sell to even consider something else if I know I'm going to be stuck there. I wrote the tools for FogBugz to Jira migration and it took a stupid amount of time to do.
FYI: FogBugz provided a Jira exporter but it was abandoned (much like FogBugz as a whole), and was totally unusable for the migration.
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#89I also hate:
The gray text. Cmon, we have a roomful of ppl and 1 monitor.
Subtasks fuck up the whole layout. And appear above everything.
Suggestions that only include the 1st N values from a list. You have to know what youre searching for.
Can't preview fakeSprint until it's started.
No easily-available view of each developer's workload.
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#90What are some alternatives to JIRA? Also, how much of the hate directed towards JIRA buried resentment towards Agile and other project management paradigms?
I like shortcut and use it whenever I have a say in the matter. https://shortcut.com/
Shortcut is pretty stripped down and lacks several features conducive to cross team collaboration. In particular I dislike shortcut's lack of internal comments. It's a much bigger annoyance than anticipated.
I dislike atlassian products in general, but having some discipline with the config/workflows was much better than shortcut.